How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese? ~Charles de Gaulle, about France
For a community to be whole and healthy, it must be based on people's love and concern for each other. ~Millard Fuller
Our environmental problems originate in the hubris of imagining ourselves as the central nervous system or the brain of nature. We're not the brain, we are a cancer on nature. ~Dave Foreman, Harper's, April 1990
I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of. ~Michel de Montaigne
I loathe the expression "What makes him tick." It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm. ~James Thurber
Asking a seamstress to mend is like asking Michelangelo to paint your garage. ~Author Unknown
A society that gives to one class all the opportunities for leisure, and to another all the burdens of work, dooms both classes to spiritual sterility. ~Lewis Mumford
The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity. ~Andre Gide
I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. ~Charles Dickens
We pretend to work because they pretend to pay us. ~Author Unknown
Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need most. ~American Proverb
The first thing you lose on a diet is your sense of humor. ~Author Unknown
The trouble with weather forecasting is that it's right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us to rely on it. ~Patrick Young
When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it cannot be cured. ~Anton Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard
If we cannot be happy and powerful and prey on others, we invent conscience and prey on ourselves. ~Elbert Hubbard
People have become as processed as food. ~Astrid Alauda
There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either. ~Robert Graves
The departing world leaves behind... not an heir, but a pregnant widow. ~Alexander Ivanovich Herzen, Other Shore
Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort which it brings. ~Walter Lippmann, A Preface to Morals, 1929
The difference between friends and pets is that friends we allow into our company, pets we allow into our solitude. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things. ~Ernest Dimnet
Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling? ~M.C. Escher
Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need to know of hell. ~Emily Dickinson, "Parting"
And upsidedown in the earth a dead man walks upon my soles when I walk. ~Bill Knott, "(End) of Summer (1966)" (Thanks, Laurie)
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